I look forward to the leadership of Chairman Royce. He and I have a shared interest in promoting a better relationship, and particularly with the very important country of India, the largest democracy on Earth.

He called it a security vacuum that had developed there.

Wouldn't you agree that empowering Qatar in this regard was a poor policy choice?

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Foreign aid should be conditional. It should be reviewed annually.

We don't know what is going to happen next.

I am grateful America stands by Israel, and I yield the balance of my time.

Sometimes you get things you really don't want.

Our foreign policy needs to be much more farsighted.

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It is up to us. It is up to us.

We did this. We passed that idiotic law that now have put you in a situation where we now want you to solve the dilemma that we didn't have the courage not to do.

I personally believe that there still is a center in this place that is ready to roll up its sleeves and find a path between the two sides.

I am particularly concerned, General Dunford.

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